Hinge Marketing

JULY 27, 2016

Differentiation is one of the most poorly understood pillars of professional services marketing. Many execs still believe differentiation isn’t a necessary component of overall growth. Differentiators make it easier for decision makers to understand why they should choose you. What is a differentiator?

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Martech

JULY 26, 2022

Fusion Sales generates automatic recommendations for the last steps to closing deals, including quotes and proposals. EVP and general manager of Oracle CX Rob Tarkoff described Fusion Sales as the second deliverable on Oracle’s marketing and sales strategy following the launch of Oracle Fusion Marketing in September 2021.

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seo.co

APRIL 19, 2023

All sales and marketing strategies need to start with sound principles, and any competent agency knows this. By adhering to these foundational principles, you’ll not only increase your chances of getting seen, but you’ll also demonstrate your knowledge of marketing fundamentals: Demographic targeting. Competitive differentiation.

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 1, 2023

With the arrival of AI tools like ChatGPT and its competitors, generic content will be increasingly less impressionable—and professional services marketers are going to be challenged more than ever to differentiate their firm’s brand as a service provider and employer. But there are risks too! No problem. Let’s consider two of them.

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Martech

MARCH 12, 2024

You’re likely familiar with the Pareto Principle, the old 80/20 rule and how it applies to marketing — 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your customers. I propose that you deploy very specific strategies to identify them and nurture them to their potential, even before they’ve signed their first contract.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That means professional services firms need to adapt their marketing strategies to address a fickle, evolving marketplace. We’ve selected five key findings from the study that firms like yours can use to compare against your own marketing strategy as you drive toward sustained growth. Why the change?

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Martech

DECEMBER 28, 2023

.” I’ve been hearing it a lot lately and so have many marketers I’ve spoken to. A common refrain from thought leaders is that marketers need to get up to speed on AI as quickly as possible and that it’s not going to be a differentiator for your marketing department, but instead, table stakes.

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Your leadership must enable B2B salespeople and marketing professionals to serve all the potential players in a buying committee — otherwise risk the committee transforming into a chaotic circus, with each member in their own disparate performance ring under the Big Top. Here your B2B marketing teams come into play.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

When firms decide to identify their differentiators, the story tends to take a certain predictable shape. At the end of such a meeting, the folks at these firms usually come away imagining that they’ve isolated their differentiators – but they haven’t. That leads to a glut of false differentiators.

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Circle Studio

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As we enter the New Year, A/E/C firms have made (and are still making) plans for where and how to spend their marketing time and budgets in 2019. Just as people everywhere are making resolutions to improve their lives—both personally and professionally—in 2019, why not do the same for your firm’s marketing efforts?

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

Did you know that only 5-10% of marketing qualified leads (MQLs) convert into paying customers? This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. Requesting quotes or proposals. It’s a valuable tool for differentiating MQLs and HQLs.

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Tomorrow People

JUNE 14, 2022

Competing within an existing market is not always easy. After all, it would be far too time-consuming and costly to compare all your marketing activities against every possible competitor at once. This will help you decide how your organisation wants to differentiate themselves from them later on. This is product development.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 7, 2022

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. With today’s economic market, it’s important to understand your brand and keep it consistent. The Digital Era is Marketing’s Era, and Marketing is Data.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Back to top ) Trending Articles 3 Ways Generative AI Will Help Marketers Connect With Customers 3 min read Learn AI Skills on Trailhead 6 min read Benefits of a playbook A playbook provides a structured approach to achieving sales goals. ” and “How do we differentiate our approach from competitors?”

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chiefmartech

AUGUST 8, 2023

So today I want to fully describe the concept, because I believe it is a useful way to understand some of the current challenges in martech — and why it may drive a major shift in marketing software in the AI Era. Particularly if a buyer’s company needs to shift the way it works to adapt to new changes in the market.

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seo.co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Marketing agencies provide critically in-demand SEO services to the millions of business owners who need them—and profit from their efforts. Others attempt to offer not just SEO services, but other online marketing services as well, like PPC advertising campaigns or social media management. That’s where good SEO agencies come in.

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Only B2B

JUNE 23, 2022

What Differentiates Leads to Opportunities? They aid in your comprehension of your target market and their interests. For the sake of product development and marketing, this kind of feedback is crucial. The ideal strategy here is to provide them a proposal outlining the conditions of your good or service.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2023

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Specialist at Heinz Marketing In today’s digital age, it’s harder than ever to stand out. While you might be marketing a product or service yourself, you’re also getting marketed to countless times throughout the day. So, that begs the question: “ how do you stand out from the crowd? ”.

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Mereo

MARCH 1, 2023

Marketing agrees on which buyers to target, where to reach them and what matters most to them. In the end, when leadership takes the time to create this tool, organizations reduce Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and enhance operational efficiency by better deploying marketing and sales resources (e.g.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report shows that 44% of sales and marketing teams are seeing a significant drop in responsiveness to social and email messaging. So, why are sales and marketing teams challenged to build strong social relationships so they can overcome sales plateaus, sales drops, and sales troughs? Many blame it on C-19.

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Mereo

AUGUST 20, 2020

value proposition, differentiation), sales skills (e.g. prospecting, discovery, proposal, objection handling, negotiation, account expansion), sales tools (e.g. Proposition Asset Examples: sales plays, solution differentiation, client value stories, proposal templates / demo scripts.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Differentiate yourself from your competitors. Uncover a broader set of needs, allowing you to propose a larger and more impactful solution set. By focusing on both the buyer’s problems and their aspirations, you open up an entirely new discussion. By doing so you: Inspire buyers to think differently. Bring value to the conversation.

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

“Customer experience (CX) is the new Marketing battlefront,” declared Gartner in their Customer Experience study. Develop systems, tools, processes, skills and content to deliver a differentiated experience. Deliver the proposed experience by focusing the entire team across various functions. Develop consistency in execution.

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Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2021

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. Good morning, Marketers, and how important to you is your CRM? Marketing ops shouldn’t perform procurement. What do marketing attribution and predictive analytics tools do? Editorial Director.

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TaylorMadeIn KEW

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

In just one week – on 3 rd December – my book B2B Marketing Strategy: differentiate, develop and deliver lasting customer engagement will finally be released! You might want to get your work into the market quickly. In the space of that time, many things changed throughout our markets and our profession. Where to start?

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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A brand exercising true data-driven differentiation is intelligently absorbing, processing, synthesizing and acting on data to achieve a sophisticated understanding of itself and its environment, thus enabling it not only to adapt to but also change itself and its environment in ways which are advantageous to it.

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Marketing Craftmanship

MARCH 12, 2020

Great content can build brand stature and increase market awareness, but in my experience, neither of those achievements necessarily delivers the type of market engagement that results in new accounts or revenue growth. Pull-based content marketing is a shotgun approach. They’re the Cinderella of content marketing.

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ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But for most marketers, it’s a tug between cost efficiency and maintaining high-quality standards. Maintaining balance is crucial for mid-market and enterprise businesses, especially those inclined toward outsourcing content. We all know that game. Tug-of-war. And it’s quite a strenuous and consistent challenge.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you using empathy in your marketing ? Because marketing isn’t something you do to people; it’s something you do with people. The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 13, 2015

Marketing is changing fast, and the changes require new skills on the part of marketing consultants and other providers. Here are the skills that today’s marketing providers need to be successful. Avoid these situations by choosing a marketer that has the right skills to successfully and fairly serve your business.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A marketing qualified lead (MQL) is one who has acquired a piece of content or connected with your marketing team but has not yet approached your sales funnel. It’s engineered to help both marketing and sales teams foster leads all the way across to a sale. This is when the inbound strategy comes into play.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As a marketer & consultant, I often apply the same skills to decipher digital behaviors. The map audience interactions to specific journey milestones can help regulate messaging, optimize spend, and prove to stakeholders that marketing delivers daily results. Many marketers have not heard of digital journey mapping before.

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Thinkers360

MARCH 8, 2024

We specialize in B2B strategic marketing, B2B analyst and influencer relations, and B2B thought leadership marketing putting your brand in front of active B2B buyers, analysts and influencers worldwide – Explore membership today ! Thinkers360: How do you like to work with brands who wish to engage you as a thought leader?

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Mereo

APRIL 22, 2021

These are the biggest lessons the Mereo team has learned either directly or in supporting Mereo clients in their go-to-market initiatives. concept discovery, proposal review) but even more-so in the ad-hoc conversations that occur all along the journey. Differentiated Value Messaging Needs to Evolve.

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Pam Didner

AUGUST 12, 2019

Messaging and positioning are the most under-rated tasks in marketing. So, if messaging is done right, it provides strategic guidance and consistency to PR, external marketing communications, sales, and can even be used for internal sales and employee training. . Sales knows what to highlight as key differentiators.

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BenchmarkONE

APRIL 1, 2020

Stories are also powerful differentiators. Applied to your business, this is sage advice, because the only true differentiator is your unique brand identity. Choose characters who have the same problems, idiosyncrasies, and even appearance as your target market. And what better way to appeal to emotion than with a story?

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Mereo

APRIL 7, 2022

In a recent survey of 330 sales and marketing leaders , in fact, 70% said their salespeople tended to stray off-message during buyer conversations. THE MEREO DIFFERENTIATED VALUE PROPOSITION FORMULA. Creating a differentiated value proposition is just part of the formula, though. Here is a peek behind the playbook cover.

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